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God save The Pokes
03:24
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God save the Pokes
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We came out of nowhere just as you
And head there together one day too
We chase you through the ups of life
And show the downs are just as bright
Ref: God save the Pokes -The melody-tycoons
God save the Pokes - The idea-baboons
God save the Pokes - And their mighty tunes
- God save the Pokes – GOD SAVE THE POKES
We teach the mayhems, the mayhems of love
Set up a peepshow of desire
We chase the darkest, the darkest of moods
Whilst keep poking the fire
We do not copy, we do not pretend
We’ll catch you with our beat
In folkpunk and lyrics we do stand firm
We will make you move your feet
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2. |
Bottoms up
03:12
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Bottoms up
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A midterm relationship cruising
Left to recover without me
To the lady I love and honour
I’m coerced to make my plea
Bedding the matter in ignorance
I admit it didn’t work well
Shrugging I try to duck away
I gambled to let time tell
Ref:
Never mind - bottoms up –
Try tomorrow for better luck
Never mind – bottoms up –
Another pint and you won’t feel stuck
Never mind – bottoms up –
Another pint and you won’t feel stuck
There’s no escape, no getaway
Those worries caught up with me
Mating with sorrow and grief
I’m struggling to break free
I wish for a blissful passing
To any matters coming near
No trouble-shooting from me today
I’m opting for malt and beer
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3. |
Mayday
03:44
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Mayday
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My dear beloved neighbourhood
Taking mature steps of no good
While being totally repossessed
You’re losing charm and steadiness
Ref
Mayday-Mayday – The wannabes are coming
Mayday-Mayday – They are homing in
Mayday-Mayday - The wannabes are coming
Mayday-Mayday – They want the house I’m living in
Merely another passing fancy
Some minute-jacks feeling rather chancy
A shoddy manoeuvre with a pattern
Another district for the it-guys to batten
The borough now wealthy but dying
Residents leaving, its soul left crying
It is a damned boon and bane
As “prosperity” sets the frame
A spreading disease of filthy lucre
I feel compelled as a by-standing sucker
There’s time for talking and for silence
There’s time for walking and for violence
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4. |
Get me out of this
03:28
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Get me out of this
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I bury my talents in the name of booze
Waste my life and keep running
Take my moaning from bar to bar
Seeking comfort from an easy darling
Then she comes as a loving guide
Then she fills me up with light
Then she leads me safe and sound
Then I fuck it up till all is dark around
The senseless awe I cause around me
Tempting loves bloody law
A mere action without soul
An end I’ve seen before
Then she comes as a loving guide
Then she fills me up with light
Then she leads me safe and sound
Then I fuck it up till all is dark around
No insight given and no lures
The verge of trust pointing back
Mistaken suffering to be the cure
The cause on a different track
Then she comes as a loving guide
Then she fills me up with light
Then she leads me safe and sound
Then I fuck it up till all is dark around
Ref :
Come on shake me, come on wake me
Just get me out of this
Come on shake me, come on wake me
Just get me out of this
Just get me out of this
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5. |
Countryside
02:58
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Countryside
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Die,die,die…
Ref:
Die-die-die – Shut up! You fucking birds
Die-die-die - Get lost! You yukky fish
Die-die-die - Piss off ! You cloudy clouds
This is not the wildlife I love and miss
Nature can be so lovely
Like butterflies or cows MOOHing
But mainly I’m pissed off
By the creatures and their doings
Die,die,die…
I love a bit of countryside
I enjoy our natures blithe
But sadly, sadly it is spoilt
By insects and the like
Die-die die…
I love my lakes and mountains
And give joy to an oceanview
But mostly it is ruined
By animals and people like you
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6. |
Bitch-cow-darling
03:00
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Bitch-cow-darling
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No, I love you - yes, I don´t
I know I should - that´s if I could
You can talk like a whore, adore and smile
You can be a bore with style
You can put up a fight, without a reason
Give me a fright and come teasing
You can be the pain in the arse I just needed
Or play the princess to be pleaded
Is it rampant vice or making scenes?
Is it throwing dice or counting beans?
Now you´re nagging and next you´re hugging
Now you´re bitch and next you´re darling
Ref:
You are my bitch-cow-darling
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7. |
I wish
03:25
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I wish
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1.Ref: I wish I had a wish to wish - I wish I had a wish to wish
For the world not to fall to bits
Or a lady with three tits
I wish I had a wish to wish
I’m ready, I’m ready, for any shooting star
Any holy shrine, stone or altar
2.Ref: I wish I had a wish to wish – I wish I had a wish to wish
For a life in peace and in quiet
For my lass to go on a diet
I wish I had a wish to wish
I’m ready, I’m ready for any wish come true
But my mind is blank, it has turned into glue
3.Ref: I wish I had a wish to wish - I wish I had a wish to wish
For a little chat with the Almighty
Or meet Mary without a nighty
I wish I had a wish to wish
Maybe, maybe, maybe, I should make a list
Write down all my wishes, my wishes I want to wish
Maybe, maybe, maybe, when I’ll stare at the sky
I’ll tick off all my wishes as shooting stars go by
4.Ref: I wish I had a wish to wish - I wish I had a wish to wish
For a love though without the bother
A malt-barrel that’ll always recover
I wish I had a wish to wish
5.Ref: I wish I had a wish to wish –I wish I had a wish to wish
To drop dead loved and merry
Or go boozing with a fairy
I wish I had a wish to wish
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8. |
Yesterdayman
03:30
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Yesterday-man
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My past is sucking and borrowing
My now is my past sorrowing
My past had some edges showing
My now feels those edges growing
My past suffers a lack of debate
My now are the basics to what I relate
My past differs from whoever tells
My now’s like an icecream that melts
My past had more time than I have left
My now smiles kindly upon this theft
My past saw a constant change of shape
My now is tempting with its own luring bait
My past is a cow forever milked
My now is like a wispy drape of silk
My past was fixed mainly on highways
My now on diversions and their byways
My past was according to my needs
My now is evermore demanding deeds
Ref : I am a yesterday-man - I am a yesterday-man
I feel lost but live - as much as I can
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9. |
Skip this song
03:50
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Skip this song
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I found tomorrow just another day
Staring at the clouds, listening to the rain
Drifting into a dreamy form of gone
The self-happiness of being alone
Worn out from keeping keeping on
Bearing hopes for more to come
I got more sorrys than I could give
I got more love than I would live
-I did not like it, but thought I will
-I was a naysayer, dying but not ill
-I did not like it, but thought I will
-I was a naysayer, dying but not ill
Ref:
Skip this song if you don’t want to listen
Skip this song if you don’t want to hear
Skip this song if it’s never your fault
Skip this song, just have another beer
A stranded hero of my own dreams
Paying tribute to ones self-esteem
Discovering the assets of the realm
A changeling accepting the facts of being
-I did not like it, but thought I will…
Dropping a premise to restart
I kill my idols and ignore my past
NOW if I find tomorrow just another day
I hit the breaks and I steer away
-I did not like it, but thought I will…
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10. |
What I don't know
02:57
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What I don’t know
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Some say suffering is happiness backwards
I say loving is played with the same chords
My soul-compass has a straight bearing
Including some offs and a lack of caring
It´d be great if you’d appear when desired
Staying invisible until required
Turn up in times, in dire need
Whilst keeping to your own noble deeds
I want to be left alone and twosome
I want company and loneliness in one
I don’t mind the wedded gives and takes
If still able to raise the stakes
Main Ref:
What I don’t know I can’t show
I can’t miss I can’t resolve
What I don’t know I can’t show
I can’t help I can’t involve
What I don’t know I can’t show - What I don’t know I cannot show
I can’t love I can’t owe, owe, owe
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11. |
Touch me
03:50
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Touch me, hold me
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I’ve been cuffed before
To a person that once was a lover
I’ve learned nothing
And went straight to another
Damned to watch
My contra-motions happy to recover
I got the feel
Of a journey that couldn’t be rougher
A traveller of lust
And sometimes love, in my own clumsy way
On emotional vacation
I was happy with my halfboard stays
I do not like all-inclusive
Just need a ticket to get away
It’s the soul,
The form of forms, urging me astray
Some memories now soft
The years made them easy, so easy to turn
The constant drag
Sustaining believes, all feels like uphill work
Some sideshows of passion
I still remember how bad I got burned
Like a human lemming
I follow and jump after what I yearn
Ref:
Touch me - hold me - But PLEASE
let me go - let me go – let me go – let me go
Let me go – let me go – let me go – let go
PLEASE let me go
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12. |
Brooding
04:17
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Brooding
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Brooding about pieces shattered and broken
Brooding over words that should’ve been spoken
Brooding, clinging to the shreds of decency
Brooding, while casting them off just as easy
Brooding over gives and takes
Brooding over chances and rates
Brooding over loops and traps
Brooding in a cul de sac
Ref:
Brooding, brooding, Ooh brooding
Drifting apart on a mental cruising
Brooding, brooding, Ooh brooding
Brooding over unheard prayers from within
Brooding while listening with a ghastly grin
Brooding can feel like slogging a dead weight
Brooding might turn into a downhill chase of fate
Brooding in my mental slum
Brooding over things to come
Brooding over alleged facts
Brooding over memories that are crap
Brooding with those memories turning soft
Brooding accounting those involved and lost
Brooding, a merry gathering of old grieves
Brooding over lost loves and their thieves
Brooding so me and I can meet
Brooding as a trick and treat
Brooding, over optional bonds
Brooding over those I’ve mourned
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13. |
Neverending
03:42
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Neverending
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Being able to see the world
I could seldom see me
Too much loving backwards
Taking losses to feel free
I never kept hold - I watched it grow cold - I n e v e r kept hold
I tried steering away
With a tightness in my chest
Hosting secrets that hurt
A dead love as my guest
I never kept hold - I watched it grow cold - I n e v e r kept hold
A sentiment, no hard feelings
At least not anymore
A love that now shines
Low and late at its core
I never kept hold - I watched it grow cold - I n e v er kept hold
Even when we’ve made our vow
I was fully aware
Knowing myself to well
That I’d try to dodge the fare
I never kept hold – I watched it grow cold - I n e v e r kept hold
Ref: This is a song about wasted love
A deadend-theme but being sung
This is a song about having enough
About my passion being flung …… Neverending, neverending, neverending - but being sung
Neverending, neverending, neverending - but being sung
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The Pokes Berlin, Germany
The Pokes – Berlins No.1 Folkpunk-Band The Pokes rock -
The Pokes are danceable - The Pokes are folk-punk.
The sound, the voice, the contents of our own lyrics are unique features
and our live character rounds it all off. It’s distinctive – it’s us.
The Pokes’ style lacks the mindcuffs of genre.
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